Members and Fellow Enthusiasts,
Below you will find the latest release of videos. As always we hope you find them helpful in application to your own education and ride.
I am also very pleased to announce our newest permanently featured trainer and rider, someone close to America's heart...Debbie McDonald! Three new videos are now live! Debbie and the much adored Brentina, have helped the US equestrian team win a team
silver and team bronze at the World Equestrian games and a team bronze
at the 2004 Olympics. In 2003, Brentina helped Debbie to become the
first American rider to win the World Cup championship. They also came
in third place at the 2005 World Cup. Brentina herself was named the
2005 Farnam/Platform USEF Horse of the Year. Please tune in to watch Debbie as she works with a few of her students and talks with us about her career and what is next for her, straight from River Grove Farm!
Lastly please take a moment to check out our "Membership" tab, even  though many of you are already members. It's new and there is a great 3 minute video that talks about the website and how it can help you! Be sure to share this link with all your friends and associates!
Sincerely,
Reisa Bonetti
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10 New Training Videos Available!
 Debbie McDonald-USA
2 time
Olympian and numerous medals in other international competitions, such
as the World Equestrian Games, World Cup, PanAmerican Games and more, America's beloved, Debbie McDonald. (shown here with Brentina).
New Video-6 yr. old, 2nd/L Level
This youngster is just beginning his changes and Debbie and Adrienne to a nice job showing the importance of dealing with tension before moving forward with training the movements.
New Video-12 yr. old, Lusitano, 4th/S Level
Debbie works with her student work alot on longitudinal suppleness to help deal with the stiffening of the neck and hotness. Watch as they work on these issues while moving into canter pirouettes, half pass and more.
New Video-I1/S Level
In this session work is done to get the horse to really listen to the aids and react, always with constant "activity". They work on devleloping the passage and 1 tempi's.
 Martin Shaudt-GER
2 time German Olympian. 2 time winner of German National Dressage
Championships. Competitor multiple year, European Dressage
Championships. In 1996 Martin was a member of the German team at the
Olympic Games in Atlanta.
New Video-7 yr. old, PSG
When
asked to slow the tempo Martin gets Yong-Shik to think uphill. Work
halt rein-back. Proper hand position. Key focus is on getting activity
no matter what the frame, movement or gait.
The focus then turns to getting an extremely active hind leg with a steady even
rhythm at trot. Half pass. Extended trot ( trot extensions, trot
lengthenings ) and dealing with a horse that gets quick and runs.
 Katrin Bettenworth-GER
Katrin Betternworth, Pferdewirtschaftsmeisterin, has achieved more than
150 wins in Klasse S (Advanced) Dressage. As a German Grand Prix
trainer and competitor she has taught clinics all over Europe,
including Spain, Italy, Denmark and England. Katrin has trained many horses from the lower levels to the Grand Prix
including three horses that competed in the World Equestrian Games in
Aachen, Germany, 2006.
New Video- 5
yr. old, 1st/A Level,
What should your 5 year old be doing? Katrin goes through many movements and expectations of what her 5 year olds should be able to do. This is a wonderful piece to help set the track you would want to stay on to lay the ground work for a properly trained young horse, and a organized way of thinking about training.
 Axel Steiner, FEI O Judge-USAAxel Steiner has been involved with dressage most
his life. Judging and teaching have been his primary horse activities
in recent years. Axel holds the highest judge ratings - Nationally "S"
and Internationally (FEI) "O," and has judged so far in 31 countries.
More recently he was on the panels for the 2000 Olympics, the 2003 Pan
American Games, and the World Cup Finals in 2005.New Video-Grand Prix Freestyle- Fl., USA, 74% (cick here for a sample clip of this video)
Commentary, movement by movement to this beautifully performed freestyle/kur. Axel ends with overall scores in each category.
New Video- Grand Prix Special- Fl., USA, 67%
In depth commentary and scores on a movement by movement basis.  Catherine Haddad-USAIn 2009 Catherine was ranked 7th in the Western European League.
Catherine rode for the US Team at the World Equestrian Festival in Aachen, 2009 in addition to numerous other international starts. Catherine Haddad represented the USA in the 2007 Rolex World Cup in Las
Vegas, Nevada. In 2006, as a member of the US Team she was named
reserve rider for the USEF at the World Equestrian Games...she has lived and trained in Germany for the last 10 years, out of barn in Vechta.New Video-GP/S Level What
should you be thinking about as you do your walk warm up? Catherine
explains how she uses this time to ensure first and foremost that the
horse is moving very actively forward, seeking contact with the bit.
Later she moves into working the hind leg for maximum activity and lastly she focuses on the piaffe and passage. Alex Gerding-USA
Alex Gerding was born in Graefelfing, Munic. He has been in the U.S.
since October 2000. Alex has more than twenty years experience as a
professional with horses in Germany. In 1989 he achieved the first
level of horsemaster "Bereiter", and was decorated with the bronze
stensbeck-medaille. He earned his final professional rank, the
Pferdewirtschaftsmeister degree, and was decorated with the silver
stensbeck-medaille, in 2001 by the German National Riding Federation.
New Video-PSG/S Level
Much time is spent in the canter work and trying to improve the gait and the activity. Alex focues on rider position within the gaits and especially as they move into developing the piaffe and passage. This work within the video is very applicable to riders of all levels.
 Nancy Pugh-Later-USA
Later trained in Germany with Ellen Bontje and
Conrad Schumacher; she also participated in dressage competitions at
world-class equestrian venues like Hickstead, Luxembourgh and Saumer. A member of the USET short list for many years Nancy is well respected in dressage circles throughout the USA. Both in Massachutes and Florida Later trains students of all levels; Nancy currently works with Olympian Michelle Gibson and
international competitor Oded Shimoni.New Videos-3rd/M Level Nancy spends alot of time in shoulder in and half pass and goes into much depth about about her aids and how she applies them, to not incur the pitfalls that many less experienced riders often run into.  2006 USDF/AdequanSymposium, Performance Through Fitness with Ingrid Klimke-GERTwo-time German Olympian and World Champion event rider Ingrid Klimke,
daughter of the late six-time Olympic gold medalist, Dr. Reiner Klimke,
will focus on the importance of cavalletti exercises for dressage. "It
is variety - dressage, jumping, hacking - that builds up different
muscles in the horse," she explains. "Classical training is always
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Tried and True Product Review (What is this?):
Back on Track
 The ceramic mesh blanket should
always be your friend no matter what the season. This blanket is multi
purpose in my point of view, its light, like a sports jersey, so it can
be applied almost all year around, especially sturdy, my playful mouthy
horse never put a tear into it and he seems comfortable in his muscles,
always coming out of the stall as if he were just hand walked or coming
from turn out, he had a certain comfortable quiet energy.Australian Equine Behavioural Centre The book is filled with alot of
really wonderful information. It is very in depth and written in an
easily understandable way. It is a ton of content to be able to absorb.
In trying to pull out what I liked best I would say that the behavioral
explanation that is given with each movement was a favorite. A movement
or training methodology would be discussed , then the possible evasions
or problems would be addressed in addition for the suggested ways of
fixing them....but also with this was a behavioral explanation which
very much resonated with me. I found that when I was working on
something that I had recently read and things werent going as smoothly
as I had hoped, I was not tense about it due to the fact that my inner
voice was calmly viewing it from a natural and understandle behavior
pattern, so I was more confident that this was "normal" and would
subside with time and proper continued training. For myself, a very A
type person, this ability of the book to move behavioral explanations
to the forefront of my mind, was very calming. I very much enjoyed the
book and would recommend it to anyone.
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